Kate Ryan
WORK Experience
Music Director, Imrpov Playhouse, Highland Park and Liberty, IL 2014
Music Director for young performers ages 5-18, at Improv Playhouse, the most comprehensive performing arts and comedy training center just north of Chicago.
Paid Soloist and Section Leader, First Presbyterian Church, Arlington Heights, IL 2014
Singer/Pianist, Howl at the Moon, Sluggers, Dueling Pianos, Chicago Dueling Pianos 2014
Adjunct Professor of Voice and Theater, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 2005-2013 Voice and Musical Theater Instructor
Musical Direction of SCU’s productions 2008-2012
Director of Music, Sacred Heart School, Atherton, CA
Responsible for direction of 4th-8thgrade choirs as well as liturgical music for all services. 2013
Vocal Director, Children’s Musical Theater San Jose Summer Camp 2013
Arranged and instructed the vocal music section for 9-16 year old students at this award-winning musical theater intensive.
Vocal Coach, San Jose Repertory Theater, San Jose, CA 2010-2013
Music Director for “A Christmas Carol”, 2012 and 2013
Transcribed, arranged, and vocal coached 2010 Production of “Black Pearl Sings”, 2010
Music Director, Children’s Musical Theatre, San Jose, CA 2012-2013
Music Direction of Marquee Productions “A Chorus Line”, “Les Miserables,”and “Nine to Five”
Director of Vocal Music for Cabaret Night 2012 and 2013, CMT’s annual performance gala
Musical Theater Instructor-Vocal Focus, Summit Public Schools, San Jose, CA 2013
Created and implemented a musical theater program for inner city San Jose high school students.
Instructor, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA 2012
Directed a vocal-focused musical theatre workshop for the Youth Conservatory Program
Director, Diablo Theatre Company Summer Youth Musical 2012
Directed and Musically Directed DLOC’s Youth Production of “Bye Bye Birdie”
Conductor, Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, CA 2012
Orchestral Conductor of K-8 musical “Honk!”
Musical Theatre Coach, Broadway by the Bay, City Lights, Connect Studios, San Jose, CA 2010-2012
Vocal Music Instructor for Broadway by the Bay’s Renowned Youth Theater Conservatory
Director of Vocal Music, Archbishop Mitty High School, San Jose, CA 2004-2010
Responsibilities include directing four vocal ensembles: Women’s Ensemble, Men’s Ensemble, Concert Choir, and Jazz Choir; conducting the Concert Band, teaching Advanced Placement Music Theory, and directing, musically
Directing and conducting over ten school musicals.
Private Instructor and Vocal Coach, Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA 1999-2001
Responsible for teaching and coaching private voice lessons. Member of the panel for admittance and scholarship into this urban, specialized, academy for the study of Performing Arts.
EDUCATION
Continued Studies in OperaThe New England Conservatory 2003
M.M. Vocal PerformanceThe Boston Conservatory 2001
B.M. Music EducationSaint Mary’s, College, Notre Dame IN 1999